It appears that the land is abuzz with the likelihood that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will run for the Senate in Arizona. The early polls say she will win handily. That no one has actually seen the unfortunate candidate since the assassination attempt has deterred no one.
One wonders what, if anything, the media is thinking. And in answering the absurd question of her candidacy is the public being anything more than polite? Here a terribly injured woman is in the early phases of a long recovery, recovery that often culminates in miserable compromise. That she was an attractive and enjoyable woman seems certain; her life seems to have been filled with a number of successes. But she is now a different woman; she has been shot through and through the left cerebral hemisphere with a 9 mm. bullet.
The American democracy is nothing if not forgiving. How in this difficult period of our history, with the nation desperate for quality leadership, anyone could take seriously the question of the candidacy of a woman with a serious brain injury whose recovery is in evolution raises questions of the competence of both the questioner and the answerer. Worse yet, perhaps the Senate is viewed so that such a candidate would not be much off the mean.
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